In pleading. The essential ground or object of the action in point of law, without which there would be no cause of action. Gould, PI. c. 4. § 12; Hathaway v. Rice, 19 Vt. 102. The gist of an action is the cause for Which an action will lie; the ground or foundation of a suit, without which it would not be maintainable; the essenial ground or object of a suit, and without which there is not a cause of action. First Nat. Bank v. Burkett, 101 111. 391, 40 Am. Rep. 209; Hoffman v. Knight, 127 Ala. 149, 28 South. 593; Tar-bell v. Tarbell, 60 Vt. 486, 15 Atl. 104.